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#1 2012-05-27 01:19:18
- manasij7479
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Can I soft-link /var/cache/pacman/pkg without issues ?
Well, I just did so, after running out of place on my root partition. (It took me a while to discover that my X server not starting was caused by that.)
I moved the whole folder (quite a few gigs) to home , without changing ownership or permissions and created a soft link to the original place.
So far, everything is running fine.
But is there any potential problem I should be worried about ?
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#2 2012-05-27 01:21:16
- graysky
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Re: Can I soft-link /var/cache/pacman/pkg without issues ?
Not in my experience. I link mine in some virtualboxes as well as in my chroots to /tmp so it gets nuked upon a reboot. Why not use cacheclean?
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#3 2012-05-27 01:28:59
- manasij7479
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Re: Can I soft-link /var/cache/pacman/pkg without issues ?
Why not use cacheclean?
Nice, didn't know about that.
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#4 2012-05-27 01:31:57
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Re: Can I soft-link /var/cache/pacman/pkg without issues ?
You can modify the cache location in /etc/pacman.conf:
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#5 2012-05-27 01:35:11
- tomk
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Re: Can I soft-link /var/cache/pacman/pkg without issues ?
Or reorganise your partitions - take some space from /home and make a /var partition.
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#6 2012-05-27 02:30:28
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Re: Can I soft-link /var/cache/pacman/pkg without issues ?
Works fine for me, for quite some time.
$ ls -l /var/cache/pacman/pkg
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 27 2011 /var/cache/pacman/pkg -> /mnt/Haven/packages/If we're going to talk about package cache maintenance tools, there's an officially supported tool in pacman-contrib: paccache.
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